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...highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
Sweeping the area, the Rangers destroyed two Viet Cong mantraps-camouflaged pits filled with barbed steel spikes. One pit was designed as an inverted cone so that if a leg were thrust into the trap, it would be impossible to pull it up again through the downward-pointing spikes. Rangers warned the U.S. observers examining the pits to avoid the barbs, which are usually covered with human excrement, or stronger poisons if available...
...bikini-ed girl in the next picture, the day was a fine chance to show off attributes that cold-weather dress somehow does not emphasize. Also, if one can judge from the look in her benefactor's eyes, it was a chance to learn how much an ice-cream cone was worth...
...Despite these obvious advantages, most admen are still skeptical of public ownership. Their big fear is that it might undermine the confidential relationship between an agency and its clients. "I wouldn't want to be part of an agency that owed its primary obligation to stockholders," says Fairfax Cone, executive committee chairman of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding. Adds Ernest Jones, president of Detroit's MacManus, John & Adams: "If there were outside stockholders, they would have the right to ask such questions as 'What is the contemplated Pontiac budget for next year?' Well, that happens...
...while in the boldly colorful style of the Fauves (the wild beasts). But the man who made the deepest impression on him in his youth was Cézanne, who had given the younger generation a new slogan: "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone...